Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 ? 13 September 2022) ^[2] was a South Korean ^[3] professor emeritus of political science and a director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii . ^[4]

Suh was born in what is now North Korea, and defected to the South in 1946. ^[3] He worked as an interpreter during the Korean War, and left to study abroad in the United States at Texas Christian University in 1952. ^[3]

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis Korean Communism and the rise of Kim . ^[5] He also later worked as a researcher there. ^[3] In 1989, he was a visiting professor at Seoul National University . From 1999 to 2000, he worked as the Yongjae Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University . ^[3]

He was best known for the books Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader , published by Columbia University Press and considered the best work on the early life of Kim Il Sung , ^[1] and The Korean Communist Movement . ^[6] His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Publications [ edit ]

• Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism and the rise of Kim Columbia University. 1964 OCLC   23152559
• Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee. Political Leadership in Korea Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2014. According to WorldCat, the book is in 967 libraries. ^[7]
• Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee, eds. North Korea after Kim Il Sung Boulder, Colo: L. Rienner, 1996 ISBN   9781555877637
• Dae-Sook Suh, ed. Korean Studies: new Pacific Currents . University of Hawaii, 1994 OCLC   29846186
• Dae-Sook Suh Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988/1995 ISBN   9780231065733
• Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism 1945?1989 : a reference guide. Univ. Hawaii Press. 1981 ISBN   9780824807405
• Dae-Sook Suh New directions of domestic policy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Univ. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN   9780824807405
• Dae-Sook Suh Koreans in the Soviet Union Univ. Hawaii Press. 1987 ISBN   9780824811266
• Dae-Sook Suh The Korean Communist Movement 1918?1948. Princeton Univ. Press, 1967 OCLC   77304095
• Dae-Sook Suh Documents of Korean Communism, 1918?48 Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN   9780824807405

See also [ edit ]

• Communism in Korea
• Kim Il Sung

References [ edit ]

Citations [ edit ]

Sources [ edit ]

• Tertitskiy, Fyodor (2018). "A Blatant Lie: The North Korean myth of Kim Il-sung liberating the country from Japan" . Korea Observer . 49 (2): 219?238. doi : 10.29152/KOIKS.2018.49.2.219 . ISSN   0023-3919 .

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